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Rats!!!

Nov27

Caught using the speedlight. I couldn’t get a picture of them before, could barely see them in the dark, even with the porch light on, without the speedlight. I thought there was only one.

The light above them is the streetlamp on the next street behind me. There were 5 rats that I saw. ugh. If Trixie, my mouser cat was still alive, she’d take care of them. The dogs run all over the yard, but as fast as they are, they don’t seem to be able to catch them.

The rats are eating the birdseed. I may have to stop feeding the birds. 🙁

Hoping you have a rat-free day!

Terry

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Dark House, Dark Patio–Speedlight Works!

Nov22

The monarch butterfly chrysalis was on the stone pillar outside, and I missed capturing it in a picture before it got dark. If I’d taken a picture of it during the day, the side of the pillar wouldn’t have been as interesting, and that adds to the composition. Using the speedlight caught it perfectly.

The horses I had taken pictures of without the speedlight and you can’t see their real colors at all. Using the speedlight here, it’s true to life. Even the impromptu picture of my daughter and granddaughter turned out much better than I ever could have gotten with natural lighting. She would have been gray, and so would the baby. Ignore the composition. The window behind her doesn’t exist. Just ignore it. Baby was trying to get away, so she’s not fully in focus. But I was impressed with the colors. 🙂

The soft boxes (soft light boxes) came in yesterday, but I picked up my son and his girlfriend at the airport, and you wouldn’t believe this, but I haven’t taken one picture yet!!! I’ll have to do better today. Tomorrow for sure, but I’ll need to set up the soft boxes and see how they work.

And I reached 60K on the book yesterday!!! I’ll be lucky to get my blog done this morning before we start running again. 🙂

Have a fun day!!

Terry

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Using a Speedlight

Nov21

Unless I’m doing this wrong, which is entirely possible, the speedlight is great if you need to light up objects in a too dark room. But if you need to show Christmas lighting, for instance, you can’t use flash.

Off to finish getting ready. The nice thing is when your guests arrive, you can’t get ready any more. What’s done is done. What’s undone is….undone. 🙂

Hope you get more done than is left undone!

Terry

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Photomanipulation Fun

Nov20

In the ladybug picture, I added two sky overlays. In the sleigh picture, I added my granddaughter, my havanese, the green bow on the sleigh, my Christmas tree, my mohair string teddy bear, extra snow, lights on the house, and the polar bear cub. 🙂

Now I’m off to run a million errands! And vacuum up pine needles again. Oh, and call about my ice maker. It’s making ice, just not dispensing it and the light panel on the front is only half lighting. It’s 2 years old. My old fridge in the old house was 15 years old. No problems ever. 2-year planned obsolescence??? Come on, manufacturers. You can do a better job than that. At least you sure used to.

Oh, and I got a speedlight so that indoor pictures aren’t too dark. But I need to figure it out still. Without speedlight and with. I’m not sure if this will cause people to squint. I tried with my dogs this morning, but I think Max closed his eyes. Just checked, nice lighting, shows his real color, if he didn’t close his eyes. lol

On NaNoWriMo, managed 1,000 words. Still haven’t reached 60K, but hope to today.

Have a lovely day!!!

Terry

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